That doesn't sound like a good fishing report; does it? I knew winds were going to be light today, so I had to run the boat looking for some keeper rockfish.
I left the slip with Lou at 6:30am anticipating an early bite. The area around the weather buoy on the Patapsco has been holding some legal fish (just legal) lately. It was a place to start close to home
Birds were flying, but not active. Looked like something was going to break loose any moment. I dropped over 5 rods with planers and drone spoons to mimic the silversides we have been seeing as bait. Caught a few shorts, then a legal 22 inched
A few more shorts, and one just 20 inches (legal but worrisome enough to release).
The birds got together and we pulled trolling rods and ran with jigging rods to find lots of dinks under birds. Played with them for a while and said, Let's go find better fish.
Ran to the mouth of the Chester and saw a charter set up chunking. Dropped some rods nearby and trolled the edge of some drop-offs and found great marks.
"Watch your rods", I told lou. We were "covered up" with all 5 rods. Small rock and nice blues
I don't usually keep blues, but they were so fat and healthy looking, we put 6 in the box. We did get one more 20 inch rock that went back
We had non stop action every time I crossed that school, but it was obvious that there weren't enough keeper rock to make setting and resetting lines worthwhile.
Birds and breaking fish were everywhere, so the jigging sticks got a fair amount of action (for my boat; ha, ha). But dinks ruled the day under birds.
There were a large number of Judge's out today. Bruce, Jason, Greg, Lolo, Jim (Lolo's old 27), Bill (another 27 on Bodkin Creek), and I were all looking today.
Sounds like Greg (who was livelinning) was the only one to find nice rockfish.
I ran for home and filled the tank ($136 for a half tank - 48 gallons)
But now I'm ready for another round of "Hide and Seek" with these fish.
Lolo had the right idea. He fished a couple of hours and then headed to Pussers for drinks. Maybe I should have gone to Mike's North and drowned my sorrows too
Cooler weather next week
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